Mind desert

“One condition of moral judgment is that matters beyond a person’s control cannot bear on what he deserves. For example, to be born in Pakistan cannot make you deserve to fare less well than if you had been born somewhere else. Nor can you deserve credit for winning a lottery through sheer luck, or blame for bleeding when you are cut.” ‘Luck and Desert’, Norvin Richard, Mind, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 378 (Apr., 1986), pp. 198-209.